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groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
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Eastbound is primarily an invite-only game — each existing player can currently invite up to one person per month, or get in touch about further invites. Existing players can hold two characters in game. A third character can be applied, if players can prove they have met activity requirements for two consecutive months with their existing two characters and have stayed engaged with the game. If you don't have an invite, somehow stumbled upon this neck of the woods, and you’d like to stay, drop the mod journal a line — we'll try to figure it out.
As of Oct. 1, cast/game caps are off. Please note, as of Dec. 1, Eastbound only has 3-4 months of gameplay left.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN BE APPLIED?
YES: canon and original characters, if they have a solid and consistent personality and background. Characters brought in after they've died are a-okay. For characters taken from a time point just as they're in the process of dying, please read below on meeting medical requirements.
NO (at this time): real people, original characters set in a canon environment, characters from canons or canon instalments that have been released for less than one month, characters with imported development from other games (CRAU), alternate universe, or gender-swapped versions of canon characters.
Children or characters with very specific medical/magical/environment needs: appable, but please make a note of how your character will ICly meet their requirements and stay alive. Likewise, if you are applying for a character taken just as they're dying, provide a suggestion for how they can be kept alive on arrival (this might be easier in some app cycles than others). You can bend the world a little to make miracles happen (ex: a substitute for the medication your character needs to survive can be found for a high price at certain apothecaries, etc.)
Characters that were dropped or swept by activity checks: yes, but they’ll come back without their previous memories, if they are applied in by a different player.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
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River Song » Doctor Who
CONTACT: formallyintroduced via discord or plurk (or just PM me)
CHARACTER: River Song
CANON: Doctor Who (TV + Audio)
CANON POINT: Post Name of the Doctor (+ her time in game if that's cool)
BACKGROUND: History | I do play her as audio compliant!
PERSONALITY: River Song is a woman with a reputation to keep. She typically comes out of the gate with a lot of flirtatious energy and confidence to spare. Unless, of course, you've given her reason to be angry and she wants you to know it.
One might find it hard to guess what's going on in River's mind because she's an expert at hiding what she's really thinking. Her entire life has been wrapped in lies and carefully told truths. Half of what she says doesn’t make sense and the other half should probably concern a reasonable person. But that’s how she likes it, and that much is obvious. It’s almost as though life is a game she’s playing and just maybe she’s in on a secret no one else seems to know about.
She has a natural tendency to take charge of a situation, as if she’s seen and done it all before. Maybe she has. Who can say which stories are true and which aren’t? Her energy draws people in, regardless.
While at times she can seem distant or detached, it isn’t difficult to notice she’s rarely cruel or even truly unkind. She is often practical and plain-spoken, intelligent and always curious.
River loves a good adventure, easily runs straight into trouble, probably with what most would consider an unhealthy amount of enthusiasm. Like a moth to a flame. But keep watching, because River doesn’t only rush toward danger, she’s dangerous herself. It's always there, shimmering under the surface in the quiet moments. When she stops flirting, pauses long enough to take a breath. There's a darkness, and the strength and determination to act on it.
She's put in her time, lived a life that was written before she was born and saw it through to its end. There's still a confidence and assurance about her, still a sense of recklessness (though it might have dimmed slightly), but there's an openness that's new. No more timelines to keep on track or secrets she has to keep for the sake of the universe. She finally has the freedom to live her life, as she chooses, even if she is technically dead and should by rights still either be lines of code in a database or faded into memory.
SAMPLE: Sample Thread
NOTES: I'd like her to remember her time here since it hasn't been too long. I'm not changing canon points or anything, but it can just be a slow bounce back. Her opt out for her telepathy (which she basically never uses) is still up on her permissions post in her journal. And also, I totally forgot what day it was, but I think I'm still sliding in here on time.
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INTRO
Your character joins the party during its sojourn in the opulent citadel of Ephes, home to a mysteriously skilled army, the Hand. Undead lady Messalina has approached Ephes’ ruling Senate to request the Hand, in a bid to allegedly ‘liberate’ fellow undead from under the enslavement of the vicious dead Brotherhood. The Senate is still deliberating on her request. A fresh OOC wrap of recent clues uncovered in Ephes (which you can assume known ICly, if you so choose!) will be posted on 29 October.
Your character arrives during the events of our latest test drive event. To summarize, if you didn't participate: characters wake up following an earthquake at at agricultural cluster, surrounded by the dark water that has previously accompanied the undead in the group's adventures. They are transported to Ephes by the Hand, to attend to any wounds — but they are taken over by the witch Karsa upon arriving at the citadel. She who reunites them with the party, informing them about the specifics of the latest mission.
While in Ephes, the Merchant will sponsor your character with passport papers and enough silver and documentation to assume a civilian role — pick whatever strikes your fancy (to the tune of Ephes’ Ancient-Rome-inspired aesthetic).
Certain magical and reality-bending turbulences take place and can affect those who emerged from the test drive event earthquakes. If you'd like a short-term roll affecting your character for up to a week after arrival in game, pick: trick (angst/light horror), treat (fluff/humour) or skip!
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